ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how and why the press, the parties, and the state in Luxembourg are entangled, and why this system of interdependency survived national and international pressures. With the help of two concrete examples, namely, the international discussions on school reforms following the sputnik "crisis" and the "shock" of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), it also demonstrates how international institutions put pressure on the political system and how the connections between the media, the political parties, and the administration turned this pressure into a particular policy for Luxembourg. The influential editorials in the Luxemburger wort saw the humanist ideal of Bildung as the main solution to the sputnik crisis, and with a series of articles, the Luxemburger wort managed to cool down the interest in a new curriculum that eventually bloomed within the more progressive parts of the Christian Social People's Party (CSV).
